Amy Klobuchar Drops Out Of Contest That She Had No Chance Of Winning Anyway

Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar has officially withdrawn her name from consideration to be Joe Biden's vice presidential candidate, and not a moment too soon. Not only had Klobuchar's name fallen off the shortlist of people the campaign was considering, but her reputation has also been forever tarnished as the prosecutor who refused to do anything about George Floyd's murderer. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Former democratic presidential candidate. Amy Klobuchar announced on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell program yesterday evening that she was officially dropping out of consideration for the vice-presidential slot on the democratic ticket. Um, this came as a surprise to absolutely nobody in this country. Most people had actually already forgotten that club Machar was ever once, even in consideration. Um, and the latest news to come out of the campaign was that there were six people who were essentially finalists and Clover chores name was not on the list. So nobody thought Klobuchar even had a shot at this thing. And for good reason, I mean, as we all know, club Machar was in fact, one of the local prosecutors who refused to go after Derek Shelvin, the officer who was allowed to stay on the forest and then murdered George Floyd, Klobuchar could have effectively prevented some of what we're seeing in the country today.

Now I'm not saying all the problems with racial inequality come from Klobuchar... That would be an insane statement to make, but Klobuchar helped perpetuate it. And she did. In fact, allow the man who was the catalyst for what we're seeing today, uh, go out there and continue serving as a police officer. So no Klobuchar absolutely would have tanked the, uh, democratic ticket this year. So she goes on Lawrence O'Donnell and makes it sound like it was her decision. She's God, she's so pathetic, like absolutely horrible human being. She is, I cannot stand her anyway. She says, after what I've seen in my state and what I've seen across the country, this is a historic moment in America. Must seize on this moment. I truly believe, as I told the vice president last night, that I believe that this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket.

And he told them that on Wednesday and Wednesday marked by the way, the 20th day of the protests. So it took you 20 days to soak in what was happening around the country. And you finally had that aha moment of, Oh, the vice president should be a woman of color, not a woman of horrible history like me. That's what happened, Senator Klobuchar. Cause I'm a little confused here because 20 days ago, even as this stuff was going on, uh, you were more than happy to be vetted to be in this position. But then, then when your horrible history came out, that's when you suddenly like a, okay, oops, I can't do this, but you did tell Lawrence O'Donnell uh, the following you said, uh, when he asked about your record, if it would impend, uh, impede how you function as vice-president you said, I think I could have functioned fine.

Uh, there are, there's a lot of untruths out there about my record and now it's not the time to debate them. No, I think actually now is the time to debate them. Now's the best time ever to debate them. Amy, if you legit say that I there's mischaracterized characterizations about this, this isn't exactly true. Uh, now would be the perfect time to come out and say that. Now that would be the perfect time to explain yourself to clear the air so that we don't go on continuing to hope that every political race you run in the future is an absolute failure because that's where we're at right now. We just want to see you fail because of how horrible you've been. Now, if that wish of failure is based on something that's not true. Please tell us, you know, I hate to wish bad things on somebody for the wrong reason.